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Chukazu:
And she was a member, tell us when she ever protested?

The Nigerian Senators earn the highest of any Senate in the world, and TINUBU's wife Oluremi too follow them de collect, has she ever rejected her share of the largess ?

Has Gbajamila ever protested of Budget padding ?

The Budgets padding originates from the ministries and department, did Buhari ever prosecute one minister?

Same Tinubu that steals with "Bullion vans" is giving us tutoring on budget due process and your brain can't just fathom the hypocrizy?
You folks

We Had to Bribe Lawmakers With N17bn to pass 2015 budget- Okonjo Iweala Alleges



A former minister of Finance during the Goodluck Jonathan administration, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has alleged that the lawmakers at the time were so taciturn about the 2015 budget that they had to be bribed with a whopping N17bn to get to work.


Iweala made this allegation in her book, Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines, in which she also claims that this payment was different from their regular N150 billion annual ‘standard’ budget.

She said; “The legislature was concerned largely about three things—the size of its own budget; the nature and the size of the capital budget, particularly investment projects; and the number and geographical location of the projects.



“Senators and Representatives felt that their role as appropriators of the budget was not just to vet and approve budget parameters and oversee budget implementation, but also to shape the size and content of the budgets, including details of specific projects.”

She even revealed that the NASS Finance and Appropriation believed ”they had the right–indeed the duty–to get into the details of the budget formulation and preparation process all along the budget value chain.”

While she was harsh on the National Assembly, she was also quick to point out that not all of them were like this and that some were not in support of the manipulation of the budget.

“Not all National Assembly members supported these unfortunate manipulations of the budget.”

She added: “National Assembly members had negotiated large increases in the National Assembly budgets and would brook no discussions or challenges on the issue.

“Their operational budget had ballooned to N150 billion or 16 per cent of the budget and almost 3.5 times the 2006 budget (in naira).”

She also disclosed in heer book that lawmakers baulked at the suggestion that they give up some of their benefits in view of dwindling revenue in 2015.

She said “By the time we presented the budget on December 16, 2014, oil prices had fallen further to $58 per barrel.

“We were prepared and we knew we had to trigger the additional expenditure and revenue measures in 2015 to make the budget work.

“This would be tough, given that we had entered an election year,”

”Indeed, legislators initially refused to accept any cuts to their regular N150 billion budget, despite dwindling revenues.

“But eventually, they agreed to a 13 per cent cut against a backdrop of ministers accepting a voluntary 50 per cent cut to their basic salaries.

“In a tough session with the National Assembly’s ad hoc committee on the budget (made up of chairs of the Finance Committee and Appropriation Committee of both chambers and other leaders of the National Assembly), an additional N20 billion was re-introduced as election expenses for National Assembly members.

“We insisted the amount be dropped because it nullified the 13 per cent cut made to their statutory budget, but managed to reduce the N20 billion figure by only N3 billion to N17 billion.

“This became the price to pay to have the 2015 budget passed.”





https://www.herald.ng/we-had-to-bribe-lawmakers-with-n17bn-to-pass-2015-budget-okonjo-iweala-alleges/

comshots:
A calibre as tinubu shouldn't be pointing an accusing finger on others when his hands are not clean.

festacman:
In 2015, Jagaban wanted the best for Buhari and APC, he was blackmailed and treated badly by the presidency and ex-chairman Oyegun. The result is the unnecessary face off between the Presidency and NASS.

When 2019 Presidential elections came, they remembered him. All the selfish paper tigers who fought Tinubu in the Presidency went into hiding . As a truly patriotic Nigerian tempered by political interests being a politician, Jagaban once again worked hard with others APC stakeholders to secure Buhari's re-election.

2019 post- election, the paper tigers surfaced again. However, it seems Buhari has become wiser as the earlier anti-Tinubu stance did not achieve much.

Lesson: There is only one Jagaban. Hate him or love him, he moves on defiantly negotiating inevitable potholes and making necessary bends. He epitomizes experience, foresight, tact, strategy, focus, patience, consensus-building, assertiveness, teamwork, positive leadership all rolled in one personality. Wonderful!

ClearFlair:
Dogara is clutching at straws...he is finished politically

Dreal1247:
Double jabbing from Dogara and Saraki on Tinubu. I believe he survives this.

festacman:
In 2015, Jagaban wanted the best for Buhari and APC, he was blackmailed and treated badly by the presidency and ex-chairman Oyegun. The result is the unnecessary face off between the Presidency and NASS.

When 2019 Presidential elections came, they remembered him. All the selfish paper tigers who fought Tinubu in the Presidency went into hiding . As a truly patriotic Nigerian tempered by political interests being a politician, Jagaban once again worked hard with others APC stakeholders to secure Buhari's re-election.

2019 post- election, the paper tigers surfaced again. However, it seems Buhari has become wiser as the earlier anti-Tinubu stance did not achieve much.

Lesson: There is only one Jagaban. Hate him or love him, he moves on defiantly negotiating inevitable potholes and making necessary bends. He epitomizes experience, foresight, tact, strategy, focus, patience, consensus-building, assertiveness, teamwork, positive leadership all rolled in one personality. Wonderful!

festacman:
In 2015, Jagaban wanted the best for Buhari and APC, he was blackmailed and treated badly by the presidency and ex-chairman Oyegun. The result is the unnecessary face off between the Presidency and NASS.

When 2019 Presidential elections came, they remembered him. All the selfish paper tigers who fought Tinubu in the Presidency went into hiding . As a truly patriotic Nigerian tempered by political interests being a politician, Jagaban once again worked hard with others APC stakeholders to secure Buhari's re-election.

2019 post- election, the paper tigers surfaced again. However, it seems Buhari has become wiser as the earlier anti-Tinubu stance did not achieve much.

Lesson: There is only one Jagaban. Hate him or love him, he moves on defiantly negotiating inevitable potholes and making necessary bends. He epitomizes experience, foresight, tact, strategy, focus, patience, consensus-building, assertiveness, teamwork, positive leadership all rolled in one personality. Wonderful!

celeiyke:
God bless U. All these kids on nairaland who think their Tinubu commands Naija politics but don't even know he is just a tool put to work when needed

What Nigerian legislators do



Sometime ago, they amended Section 84 of the constitution so they can directly charge expenditure of the National Assembly into the Consolidated Revenue Fund, like those of the judiciary, and other constitutionally qualified government agencies.

Examples of legislators using their offices for ungainly gains are in a video showing Lawan Farouk of the House of Representatives purportedly receiving $620,000 – part of $3m bribe – to expunge the names of two companies of billionaire Femi Otedola from the list of oil marketing companies to be sanctioned for receiving foreign exchange for petroleum products they didn’t import.

Farouk’s explanation that he accepted the money in order to prove to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he was under great pressure to compromise is better told to the marines.

Records of a House Representatives sitting showed that he asked the names of two companies to be expunged from his committee’s report.

He was later suspended as Chairman of the House Ad Hoc Committee to Verify and Determine the Actual Subsidy Requirements. But instead of resigning and vacating his seat, he remained as a member of the House.

In her tell-it-all book, “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines,” former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has observed that, in the case of “(Nigeria’s) state legislatures (they) are typically weak,” and so may not be worth discussing here.

She observed that it took considerable efforts “to persuade (Nigeria’s) legislators charged with spearheading and passing (the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority Bill into an Act) in the National Assembly.”

According to Okonjo-Iweala, the legislators were “concerned largely about… the size of (their) own budget.” They went beyond justifiable interest in “the nature and size of the capital budget… the number and geographic location of these projects… (and) the size and content of the budget.”

This is a euphemism for constituency projects “that legislators could conceive and include in the capital budget to cover their desire to meet geographic distribution goals and the needs of the communities that elected them.”

While this sounds like an altruistic attempt to assure even spread of projects to all constituencies, it usually turns out to be a ruse to enrich legislators. In many cases, the projects are ill-conceived or ill-executed white elephants. Sometimes, they are not executed at all.

There is always a tension between the legislators and the executive branch who “felt that after budget parameters were approved by the legislature… budget details and specifics… were the purview of the executive.”

A thoroughly distraught Okonjo-Iweala refers to the strange animal called, “Bribe for Budget scandal,” or “the solicitation and payment of bribes to facilitate the passage of a sector’s budget.”

She recalls that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission once brought an allegation that “the Senate President and six other members of the National Assembly solicited and received bribes from the Education Ministry to facilitate the passage of that sector’s (2012) budget.”

Though the legislators denied this allegation, then President Olusegun Obasanjo “fired Education Minister Fabian Osuji for bribing the leader of the Senate (Adolphus Wabara) and six other members of parliament (with N55 million) to smoothen the passage of his annual budget.”

Okonjo-Iweala revealed that the 2015 Budget was passed only after the executive branch painfully compromised and agreed to add N17bn to cover the 2015 “election expenses for National Assembly members.”

Another damning revelation about the legislative arm came from one of their own; Abdulmumin Jibrin, a former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, representing Kano State.

He alleged that the quartet of current House Speaker Yakubu Dogara, his Deputy Yusuf Lasun, House Whip Alhassan Doguwa, and Minority Leader Leo Ogor, “padded” the 2016 Budget with as much as N40bn.



https://punchng.com/what-nigerian-legislators-do/

He alleged that the quartet of current House Speaker Yakubu Dogara, his Deputy Yusuf Lasun, House Whip Alhassan Doguwa, and Minority Leader Leo Ogor, “padded” the 2016 Budget with as much as N40bn.

Okonjo-Iweala revealed that the 2015 Budget was passed only after the executive branch painfully compromised and agreed to add N17bn to cover the 2015 “election expenses for National Assembly members.”

NinjaMetahuman:
david mark won 4-5 times

does it stop him from becoming irrelevant in the 8th senate?

iammo:
Talk the one you sabi oga, and not.bulsheet.

Senators salary is 750k and allowances are multiplicit, some are bi annual, some are annual. Only Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission fixes salary of political class and not mrs tinubu.

Mrs Remi isnt in a place to.protest as saraki never.gives her the floor since Dino's immature outburst.

If people like gbajabiamila didnt protest about padding you prolly wont have had of it.

Your igbo obsession with tinubu is funny, Tinubu stoped holding public office since 2007 and PDP investigated and prosecuted him with the CCT acquiting him on any corruption allegation, and the man moved on to business owning stakes in oil and gas, media and tax consultancy. Which makes him billions yearly and to which he duly pays taxes. So what law stops bullet proof bullion vans from entering his private residence? The you see the content inside the van? Or just another rich man envy

Chukazu:
Cockroach don eat your Brain!
See the one I Sabi below

ClearFlair:
Dogara is clutching at straws...he is finished politically

ClearFlair:
Dogara is clutching at straws...he is finished politically

looseweight:
See how young bloods are schooling jagaban

fredoooooo:
Una go bark till all of una die ... Asiwaju don talk

fredoooooo:
Una go bark till all of una die ... Asiwaju don talk

ClearFlair:
Dogara is clutching at straws...he is finished politically